Sex and Reason

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• For unlike Freud, he believes that civilization is bad and should be overthrown. It would be a very good thing, therefore, if the polymorphous preversity of the infant wre not repressed in the adult but instead were allowed to flourish ; sexual revolution would be the harbinger of political revolution. In these propositions one glimpes not only the revolutionary infat of Romantic poetry, such as the six-year-old 'seer blest' of Wordworth's immortality ode, but also the idea, most famously expressed in Nineteen Eighty-Four, that sexual love endangers totalitarian order. (查看原文)

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• Prostitution, both male and female, was extremely common (as was concubinage), as it had been in Greece as well, and public bathhouses were a common locus of sexual activity. Women appeared on the stage, as actresses and dancers, often in the nude and sometimes performing sexual acts. Actresses were considered the moral equivalent of prostitutes. (查看原文)

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